عشقتُ ظماءَ الكشح لا بل غراثها

تودُّ الثريَّا أن تكون رعاثَها

I loved the thirst of al-Kashah, nay its downpour

The Pleiades wish to be its pasturage

من الخُرّدِ الوسنانةِ اللحظ حرَّمت

على العينِ منِّي أن تذوقَ حثاثها

The glancing of the delicate, slender-waisted one has forbidden

My eyes from enjoying its overflow

نَشت في خدورٍ عنك فتيانُ عامرٍ

حمت بذكورِ المرهفاتِ إناثها

In your meadows youths from prosperous 'Aamir sprang up

Protecting with men the darting gazelles among its females

ومُرتبعاتٍ في رياضٍ كأنَّما

نَدى حسنٍ في واسمٍ منهُ غاثها

And those sitting in gardens as though

The splendor of beauty in a protector its rescue

كأخلاقه أزهارها اللآء دُبِّجت

بوطفاء خِلنا من يَديه انبعاثها

Like its morals, its flowers the brilliant were embroidered

With our affection from his hands their emergence

شأى في المعالي والمكارِم والنُهى

فأَحرزَ غايات الفخارِ ثلاثَها

He climbed high in merits, virtues and warnings

Thus gaining the limits of pride three of them

همامٌ به لا قِست أبناءَ عصرِه

ومَن بالصقور الغلبِ قاسَ بغاثها

Aspirations through him, not compared children of his time

And who with the hawks has compared the searching of its prey

تراه بنو الآمال في المحلِ غيثها

وعند طروق النائبات غياثها

The children of hopes see him in position its rain

And at the heels of misfortunes its rescue

تردَّت ثيابَ العيشِ فيه قشيبةً

وعند سِواهُ قد تردَّت رِثاثها

The clothes of livelihood in him wore out tattered

While in others they wore out ruined

من القوم لا تَلقى سوى الحمد كسبها

وليسَ ترى إلاَّ المعالي تِراثها

From the tribe you meet only praise his gain

And you see none but the heights his inheritance

مُعوَّدةً سبقَ السؤالِ صِلاتُها

فإن هي لم تسبق وإلاّ استراثها

Habituated, precede requests his prayers

If not preceded, then multiply its consolation

وكم لفتًى لاثت مآزرها العُلى

فما حَمَدت إلاَّ عليكَ ملاثها

And how often for a youth its lofty wrappings blamed

But it only praised you its misfortunes